Newswire reports that the sole ISP in the Marshall Islands was seriously zonked (that's a technical term -Ed) earlier this week had me reaching for the atlas, if only to find where in the Pacific the islands are located.It seems...

In their default mode, Wordpress blogs are reportedly a doddle to hack, as most users don't bother to change all the admin passwords.But you'd expect a Web registration ISP to change them, wouldn't you?Step forward 123Reg, the...

Many countries can be instantly crippled if one of their national infrastructural services is taken down, be it water, electricity, transport or many other different critical services.  This podcast gives the key issues from...

Botnets have been known to be a significant threat to corporations and governments alike. Many companies have only just been able to create adequate defences by co-operating with the Computer Emergency Response Teams. ...

US based Charter Communications, has finally withdrawn its pre-announced step of tracking the online activities of its subscribers, for replacing advertisements based on their interests. Its subscribers reacted subsequently...

Ministry of Defence has recently found that the recruits of Armed forces, who belong to the "facebook generation", have stopped taking data security seriously. Ministry of Defence (MoD) seems quite upset with the...

A Radical transformation in the way we use the internet could be at our doorsteps, as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given a green signal to bring upon customizations of web-addresses. Initially...

Myspace has joined hands with MSNBC.com and NBC news channel to further the propagation of citizen journalism. The growing craze for citizen journalism has caused MySpace to team up with NBC news and MSNBC.com to launch...

Mobile sector is where the love it seems; after Nokia's purchase of Plazes and Symbian in the past few days, Microsoft has announced that it is purchasing Mobicomp, a small mobile-data company that was founded eight years ago. ...

However, NVIDIA uses manufacturing facilities of this very company to produce its reference cards. So, theoretically we can say that it's Foxconn who actually manufactures these products. But still it's NVIDIA's engineers who...

A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don't do both at the same time. The reason you don't do both...

O2 was left stunned when the prices of its 3G iPhone PAYG services for non contract customers were revealed on its official website.Calling the whole thing a technical error, O2 maintains that the page was loaded accidentally (ed...

Panasonic has launched CF-U1 Toughbook, a mini laptop, in an attempt to keep up with the growing demands of corporate users. The Japanase manufacturer, with its newly invented Toughbook, has tried to integrate the features of a...

Greenpeace has issued the latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics which grades 18 consumer electronics manufacturing companies in terms of their eco friendly means of production and products. Greenpeace has been issuing...

Dell has launched their studio line laptops with their two laptops, Studio 15 and Studio 17; which are priced higher than the Dell Inspiron series, but lower than the XPS line. Studio 15 has a 15.4 inch screen while the Studio...

Mozilla Firefox hits the 20 million download mark while its global market share experiences a significant rise. The party for Mozilla doesn't seem to get over, as a large number of users are still going for its newly launched...

A rival's product was promoted with the headline "Sick of Sage?" and a claim that Sage's product range was a "bag of bits." Interprise Solutions ran a direct mailing campaign for its software package showing...

A legal expert said that the plans will make brand protection a nightmare. The board of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, backed the move at a meeting in Paris yesterday. Presently, users have a...

Over the last few years more and more companies have grown used to the concept of penetration testing to help detect security holes in their applications, networks and operating systems. In this podcast, Kenneth Van Wyk of KRvW...

BT's press office has been urging me to check out BT Openzone's `wireless cities' project for several months now, so, finding myself holed up in Birmingham the other day, I thought I'd put it through its paces.Under the project,...

Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer. It includes the following features: Universal Binary, Remote...

True Launch Bar is a superior replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in True Launch Bar. However, the True Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses...

But if you can actually read it (doubtful), you might find some oddness in it, like this: "Of course, we don’t recommend this, but you could drive through residential neighborhoods to look for homes with Wi-Fi that...

When I get some time, I hope to get a video of something else that is similar.